Obesity Among University Student

Obesity among University studentA busy lifestyle and a pack schedule among University student is a common view, when they are pursuing their study at the higher level. We are all agreed that Education comes first but, how about healthiness?. Almost every student in University was not choosy about what they eat, as their eating habit can affect their study performance. They are not concern about their fat level in the body which can lead to obesity. It is proven that this problem become more serious when there are too many university student get bigger on their size. When our body got bigger, we are exposed to the danger and easily to get disease. Thus, we need to find out the reason which cause obesity and the way to overcome this problem. The reason which cause obesity problem among student is because they are lack of physical activity. Generally, university student takes too much effort for studying without thinking about their own healthy. In real life, this is totally wrong. Indeed, a good student will always look after their healthy and at the same time, they try to consistence for their study. Furthermore, influent to video gaming is one of the reason about why student lack of physical activity. As we can see, almost all students use technology in their university life. But, there raises one serious questions about “ Is students can manage their technology in only positive way? ”. It is wrong because, there are too many students that do not want to involve in outdoor activity. Their mind set is to play video game as well as too active in social networking. For them, playing video game is very entertaining compare to what they are going to learn from the outdoor activity. All this things will affect their interest in sports. Thus, it is prove to say that the main reason for obesity problem among university student is because they are not willing to get involved into whatever activity which an help us to build an ideal body. The next...

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